AD- Engineering at Cashfree Payments in Bellandur

Job description

About us: At Cashfree Payments, we’re not just shaping the future of payments—we’re moving fast to scale businesses at every stage, with deep expertise in powering India’s D2C and e-commerce growth. Founded in 2015, we process transactions worth $80B annually and are trusted by more than 800,000 businesses. Authorised by the Reserve Bank of India, we are one of the first entities to receive critical licences like PA-PG, PA-CB and PPI in the sector. We enable seamless collections, payouts, identity verification, and fraud detection. We are backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton Inc, State Bank of India (SBI), and were incubated by PayPal. Associate Director – Engineering (12+ Years Experience) Role Overview As an Associate Director of Engineering, you will drive technology vision, execution excellence, and organizational capability for a business unit. You will operate at the intersection of strategy and delivery—shaping architecture, scaling teams, and ensuring high-quality product outcomes aligned with business goals. Key Responsibilities → Technology Strategy & Architecture → Define and own the technology roadmap for multiple products or platforms within the business unit, ensuring alignment with the organization’s long-term technology vision. → Govern architectural decisions across systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency. → Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage. → Execution & Delivery Excellence → Oversee end-to-end product delivery, ensuring high-quality releases within defined timelines. → Establish and optimize engineering processes, development standards, and best practices to improve productivity and predictability. → Drive data-informed decision-making using engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability, cost). → Leadership & Talent Development → Build, lead, and scale high-performing engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders. → Identify skill gaps and implement structured learning, upskilling, and leadership development programs. → Mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers to enhance technical depth and leadership capability. → Cross-functional Collaboration → Partner with Product, QA, UX, Operations, and Business stakeholders to ensure effective planning, staffing, and execution of initiatives. → Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders. → Align engineering priorities with business outcomes, customer needs, and operational goals. Core Requirements → Strong expertise in designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems. → Deep experience with Java ecosystem (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA) and modern backend development practices. → Solid understanding of data architectures, including relational databases and NoSQL/document stores. → Product Thinking: Uncover the why,challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into simple, high-impact solutions that translate intent into action. → Innovation: Challenge the status quo, simplify complexity, embrace new technologies, and turn curiosity → experiment → insight → solution into elegant, reliable, scalable systems that create lasting value. → AI Engineering: Build practical expertise in AI, LLMs, agents, automation, and emerging technologies to transform engineering workflows with context-aware, evidence-based, reliable, validated, and safely controlled AI solutions. → Proven ability in object-oriented design, system design, and architectural patterns. → Good understanding of web and mobile technology stacks. → Strong grasp of non-functional requirements and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs. → Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing frameworks. → Hands-on familiarity with agile methodologies and modern software development practices. → Experience managing and operati